U+D664 "홤" Hangul Syllable Hwam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홤
U+D664 "홤" Hangul Syllable Hwam is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "hwam." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the modern Korean alphabet. In practical use, this character appears as part of Korean text, including words like "홤" (a rare noun meaning a type of large, wide basket or hamper), though it is less common than more frequent syllables and primarily functions as a phonetic element in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D664 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "화" U+D654 Hangul Syllable Hwa "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD664 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D664 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud664 |